NanoProfessor joins ISTEC for STEM promotion

April 26, 2011 – Marketwire — NanoProfessor, a division of NanoInk Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, has joined the Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) Inc. to help promote collaboration in the areas of science, technology and education among academia, government, industry and society.

Founded in 1990, ISTEC seeks to foster socio-economic and educational change in Ibero-America, which consists of Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and all Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, in addition to Brazil, by creating prosperity and improving the quality of life in the region.

"With programs already established in the US and Colombia, the NanoProfessor Program is helping drive the world’s competitiveness in the exciting nanotechnology industry. NanoProfessor demonstrates its commitment to science, technology and education by providing students with hands-on learning of nanotechnology that will translate into high-tech careers in a number of growing industries," said Dulce Garcia, interim president of ISTEC Inc.

"Together with ISTEC, NanoProfessor aims to raise awareness of the necessity for collaboration at all levels of science, technology and education, especially in the growing field of nanoscience," said Dean Hart, chief commercial officer of NanoInk.

NanoProfessor is a Platinum supporter of ISTEC’s upcoming XVIII ISTEC General Assembly hosted by Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 16-20. NanoProfessor will be exhibiting throughout the event and will host a special luncheon on Tuesday, May 17 to discuss the global importance of training a nanotechnology workforce and how the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program can serve as a foundation of such training.

The NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program aims to expand hands-on nanotechnology education from the cleanrooms of research-based universities to undergraduate classrooms, and is especially well-suited to nanotechnology educational initiatives at the community college, technical institute, and undergraduate university level. The program alternates between classroom lectures and hands-on lab work and includes a 275-page textbook authored by leading nanotechnology experts, covering the topics of Nanotechnology Basics, NanoPhysics, NanoChemistry, NanoBiology and Environmental, Health, and Safety perspectives on nanotechnology.

During the hands-on lab experiments, students learn the fundamentals for building custom-engineered, nanoscale structures while working with state-of-the-art equipment including NanoInk’s NLP 2000 Desktop NanoFabrication System, a student-friendly atomic force microscope (AFM), an advanced fluorescence microscope, and various chemical and biological materials used today within current and emerging nanotechnology applications.

For more information on how the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program can be implemented at your community college, technical institute, high school or university, visit www.NanoProfessor.net.

ISTEC seeks to foster socio-economic and educational change in Ibero-America by creating prosperity and improving the quality of life in the region. ISTEC provides programs focused on: advancing the state of higher education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), generating and disseminating knowledge and information, establishing cost-effective vehicles for technology transfer, encouraging joint international research and development, fostering an environment for entrepreneurship and collaboration and promoting leadership models that adhere to the principles of responsibility and accountability.

FEATURED PRODUCTS

TECHNOLOGY PAPERS

The research group led by Professor Peter Kinget at the Columbia University Integrated Systems Laboratory (CISL) focuses on cutting edge analog and RF circuit design using digital nanoscale CMOS processes. Key challenges in the design of these circuits include block-level characterization and full-circuit verification. This paper highlights these verification challenges by discussing the results of a 2.2 GHz PLL LC-VCO, a 12-bit pipeline ADC, and an ultra-wideband transceiver.March 13, 2015Sponsored by Mentor Graphics

The use of imaging colorimeter systems and analytical software to assess display brightness and color uniformity, contrast, and to identify defects in FPDs is well established. A fundamental difference between imaging colorimetry and traditional machine vision is imaging colorimetry's accuracy in matching human visual perception for light and color uniformity. This white paper describes how imaging colorimetry can be used in a fully-automated testing system to identify and quantify defects in high-speed, high-volume production environments.February 27, 2015Sponsored by Radiant Vision Systems

WEBCASTS

Die stacking enables better chip performance in a small form factor, meeting the needs of smartphones, tablets, and other advanced devices. Through-silicon vias are moving into volume packaging production, but problems with reliability, cost, and scaling remain. The supply chain also must adjust to this “mid” step between front- and back-end chip production. This webcast will explore the wafer thinning, bonding, TSV formation and other critical process steps necessary to enable 3D integration.

Success in electronics manufacturing increasingly relies on the materials used in production and packaging. In this webcast, experts will focus on changing material requirements, the evolving material supply chain, recent advances in process and packaging materials and substrates, and the role new materials will play in the future.